2020-21 Bernice Pescosolido, "The Mental Health Moment: Stigma in the Time of COVID-19 – Progress, Problems, and Prospects"
2019 Suzanne Eckes, "The Potential for Discrimination in an Era of Education Privatization"
2018 Jeffrey White, "Exploring the Inner Workings of Greenhouse Gases in Arctic Landscapes under Rapidly Warming Climate"
2017 Linda B. Smith, "How Infants Break into Language"
2016 Brian Powell, "Public Opinion after Obergefell: What Americans Believe about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Marriage Equality, and Same-Sex Parenting"
2015 Gregory Udell, "Banks, Financial Crises, and Firm Access to Credit"
2014 Rebecca J. Barthelmie, "Wind Energy 2030"
2013 Susan Williams, "Solomon's Daughters: Women as Law-Makers in Customary Systems"
2012 Mike Wade, "Nature, Nurture and the Nurturers"
2011 Richard DiMarchi, "Miraculous Molecules"
2010 Dror Wahrman, "The Collier Code: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age"
2009 David Weaver "Journalists, Journalism, and Research: What Do We Know and Why Should We Care"
2008 David R. Williams, "Marine Natural Products: Inspiration for Innovation in Organic Chemistry"
2007 Meredith West, "Close Encounters of the Avian Kind: The Developmental Ecology of Vocal Communication in Birds"
2006 Peter Bondanella, "Fellini and Fantasy"
2005 Gary Hieftje, "The Three Sides of Scientific Investigation"
2004 Alex Dzierba, "Exotic Particles and the Confinement of Quarks"
2003 David C. Williams, "Civic Constitutionalism, the Second Amendment, and the Right of Revolution"
2002 Ellen D. Ketterson, "Is It Just Hormones? Testosterone, Mating Systems, and Parental Care in Birds"
2001 Roger G. Newton, "Alien Science"
2000 Fedwa Malti-Douglas, "Clinton, Lewinsky, and the Great Books"
1999 Larry N. Thibos, "Perfecting the Optical System of the Human Eye"
1998 Charles S. Parmenter, "Laser Studies of Energy Flow in Molecules"
1997 Kathy D. Schick and Nicholas P. Toth, "The Role of Rock: The Evolutionary Origins of Human Technology"
1996 Eugene D. Weinberg, "Iron Withholding: A Defense Against Disease"
1995 Ronald A. Hites, "The Movement of Toxic Pollutants through the Environment"
1994 Lewis Rowell, "Narrative Beginnings in Music"
1993 Esther Thelen, "The Origins of an Embodied Cognition and the Dynamics of Time Scales"
1992 Joan Hoff, "Watergate Revisited"
1991 Robert E. Pollock, "Cold Traps"
1990 H. Scott Gordon, "How Many Kinds of Things Are There in the World?"
1989 Milos Novotny, "Chemical Communication in Mammals"
1988 Bruce Cole, "Love, Lust, and Loss in Venetian Painting of the Golden Age"
1987 John R. Preer Jr., "Repairing Genetic Defects by the Introduction of Cloned Genes"
1987 Howard Gest, "A Trail of Directed Serendipity in Research on Photosynthetic Bacteria"
1986 Elinor Ostrom, "How Inexorable is the 'Tragedy of the Commons?': Institutional Arrangements for Changing the Structure of Social Dilemmas"
1985 Richard Westfall,"Galileo and the Jesuits"
1984 Eliot Hearst, "Empty Intervals and Absent Events: Something About Nothing in the Psychology of Animals and People"
1984 Richard M. Shiffrin, "Automatic and Controlled Processes in Memory and Attention"
1983 Ciprian Foias, "Abstract Mathematics and Concrete Problems"
1982 David Pisoni, "Speech Technology: The Evolution of Computers that Speak . . . and Listen"
1981 Anthony Mahowald, "The Precocious Germ Cell, A Haven from Developmental Change"
1980 J. Rufus Fears, "Roman Liberty: An Essay in Protean Political Metaphor"
